Unboxious
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- Comment on The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2 • Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 2nd Season - Episode 1 discussion 23 hours ago:
On the one hand, she sticks around. On the other hand, the more girlfriends he picks up the more dilute her presence is. That said, that only works if you dislike her for her personality. If you dislike her due to the age gap, you may need to give up on this story.
- Comment on Getting up to speed with Gundam 1 day ago:
I’d agree that it’s watchable without prior knowledge, but scenes like the hypnosis one are soooo much funnier if you know what they’re referencing!
- Comment on What do you consider the saddest anime? 1 day ago:
LOOK BACK was pretty dang sad, but it’s one of the only 10/10 anime I’ve ever seen.
Dororo (2019) is also up there.
- Comment on Getting up to speed with Gundam 1 day ago:
Hello, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior G Gundam?
Seriously though, it’s one of my favorite ones and can be watched at any time. It’s kind of like if Gundam was a saturday morning cartoon. I think if you watch the first episode you’ll have a pretty good idea if it’s for you.
- Comment on Getting up to speed with Gundam 1 day ago:
Build Fighters especially is a joy to watch
This is so frustrating to me because Build Fighters is my favorite Gundam series but I can’t recommend it to anyone without asking them to watch over a hundred episodes of other stuff first!
- Comment on Getting up to speed with Gundam 1 day ago:
Gquuuuuux is it’s own timeline
Based on the latest trailer it actually appears to be UC related; there’s a Zeon insignia on someone’s collar.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 1 discussion 2 days ago:
Weird for her to call “handing out books” a roundabout way of increasing literacy. Short of holding classes that’s about as straightforward as it gets!
- Comment on Studio Mappa's Anime About Making Anime Is a Surprisingly Refreshing Isekai 4 days ago:
More than usual? That’s quite impressive coming from the writer of Death Note.
- Comment on Studio Mappa's Anime About Making Anime Is a Surprisingly Refreshing Isekai 4 days ago:
I don’t read blurbs before watching and I got no indication of why the main character has writers block for her movie, but the article confidently states it’s because she’s never been in love
This is indeed something that the blurb states very straightforwardly.
- Comment on Studio Mappa's Anime About Making Anime Is a Surprisingly Refreshing Isekai 5 days ago:
I love Shirobako, but what a stressful show to watch. It felt like the world was threatening to end every other episode!
- Comment on [News] Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year 5 days ago:
E ink patents finally expire in 2026 and then we will hopefully finally see some competition in this space
I had no idea! That’s excellent news!
- Comment on [News] Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year 5 days ago:
There are definitely manga out there that have digital subscriptions available in Japanese but not English. Skip and Loafer comes to mind, as well as Witch Hat Atelier.
- Comment on [News] Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year 5 days ago:
I use a Boox Page 7" ereader. All the big manga apps, including Shonen Jump and Manga Plus, work on it. None of them support the page-turn buttons except Mihon though. The Shonen Jump app is an especially bad experience because you need to swipe to turn pages; at least with Manga Plus tapping the edge of the screen works. Speaking of the screen, 7" is plenty big for reading in your native language, but I occasionally have to zoom in to make out certain kanji when reading in Japanese. It doesn’t sound like a big upgrade in size over phone screens but since it’s actually the right aspect ratio it’s a huge difference.
As for color, I suspect that color e-ink screens aren’t gonna be a great time. You’re giving up effective resolution in exchange for it, and I think I’d prefer sharper black and white performance instead.
- Comment on [News] Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year 5 days ago:
Crunchyroll has offered manga in the past, and I found their offerings to be lackluster. It’s hard to compete when the Shonen Jump app is offering a huge catalog for $3/month, and even letting users read entire manga for free if they keep up weekly.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 6 days ago:
Interesting. It’s missing on Anilist.co, MAL, and Crunchyroll but sure enough there it is on Livechart.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 6 days ago:
I think this probably happens to the majority of manga unfortunately. If they don’t sell well they get canceled and replaced with something else.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 1 week ago:
I started watching a couple of shows:
- Akiba Maid War - It’s what it says on the tin. Super fun, humorous, well-written show.
- Zenshu - The English blurb for this show lies by omission. It cuts off the ending of the Japanese blurb! The cut off part reads something like, “While struggling with her storyboards, she loses consciousness. When she awakens she finds herself in the world of an anime she saw as a child, Tales of Destruction.” That’s right, it’s actually an isekai. They admitted it to the Japanese audience but deliberately hid this information from western viewers. The animation is superb, and I can see why they wouldn’t want to be lumped in with all the other generic isekai that are constantly being churned out, but I don’t appreciate being lied to.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 1 week ago:
After procrastinating it for so long, I finally got around to watching the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam.
One of us! One of us! Now that you’ve watched that, you can enjoy all the parts of UC Gundam where they actually had money and their animation director wasn’t in the hospital!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 1 week ago:
So, it will be sometime this year that the manga runs out of content to adapt.
Even if this happens I have faith in the TEIS mangaka. The manga adaptation is really well-made, and shows a clear mastery of comedic timing in comic form. If they have to come up with a filler story I have no doubt it would be hilarious. I doubt that’ll happen soon though; even if there isn’t a publicly available volume 7 of the LN surely the writer can send them a draft or outline or something to go off of.
- Comment on What anime fan fiction/fanart is your favorite? 1 week ago:
I don’t really keep track of favorites, but I really love this Dungeon Meshi x Pokemon fanart from Raikoart. Image
- Comment on [Discussion] LOVE-BULLET - Ch. 9 1 week ago:
When I was in 6th grade I went on a school trip like that one in the woods of Oregon. Luckily they didn’t have us cook our own food but we made fishing lures, learned a bunch about Oregon’s ecosystem, and walked around in the woods a bunch. Overall it was a good time.
Anyways, I wonder what Kanna’s deal is. Earlier she seemed quite willing to help out our MC to graduate from cupid-hood as quickly as possible, seemingly at her own expense. Maybe she just really likes this job?
- Comment on Medalist - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
Ah, didn’t realize since MAL doesn’t list those. I should’ve known to go straight to anilist.co!
Thanks!
- Comment on Medalist - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
Dang, no streams huh? Guess it’ll take me longer than I expected to get to this.
- Comment on ZENSHU • Zenshuu. - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
The animation was gorgeous, but I’m kinda annoyed that I got tricked into watching an isekai.
- Comment on "Futari Solo Camp" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 1 week ago:
Answer below (spoilers of course):
First chapter of Futari Solo Camp
The female lead threatens to accuse the male lead of rape if he doesn’t let her join him.
- Comment on "Futari Solo Camp" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 1 week ago:
It’s not because it was romance. The actual reason is below:
First chapter of Futari Solo Camp
The female lead threatens to accuse the male lead of rape if he doesn’t let her join him.
- Comment on "Futari Solo Camp" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 1 week ago:
I read the first 3/4 of the first chapter but I found it pretty off-putting. I’m definitely skipping this one.
- Comment on Winners of the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards 1 week ago:
That one felt a little weird. I feel like you could make a good argument that the first half of the first season is slice of life, but most of the rest of the series is not.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01] 1 week ago:
I haven’t read Berserk, but it’s worse than anything I saw in the first 2 seasons of Re:Zero or read in The Promised Neverland.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 01] 1 week ago:
to the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru
Me! That was me! After I read the manga I saw the first episode of the anime and it was kind of a bummer tbh. I was curious about whether that was in the original LN, so thanks for answering that!
